From a sitting start?
-Pants
-Shoes or boots
-Hat (and contents of the hat: Wallet, keys, list of phone numbers, challenge coin, and other various pocket essentials)
-Passport
-Wife
Actually, my wife can work on the five minutes to grab her own five items, so I’ll grab my laptop instead.
Dog
Cat
#1 Stratocaster
Beretta 92F/loaded clips
Aux hard drive/3 thumb drives
Assuming I had a vehicle to haul stuff and a place to take it I could get a couple more things within the 5 minutes:
#2 Stratocaster and an amp
Dad’s .22 rifle
Toolbox with my knife collection.
Purse, bug out bag, whatever handguns or rifles are in easy reach, jewelry
husband
dog
laptop
African giraffe sculpture
photo albums
I’d gather the wife and kids, then gather the following:
wallet & purse
laptop computer
smart phones and chargers
medication
9 mm handgun, five mags, 600 rounds of ammo
semi-auto .308 rifle, six mags, and 1000 rounds of ammo
5 minutes probably gives me just enough time to wrangle the cat into a carrier and put the dogs on their leashes. What do I need all that paperwork for, anyway
If there’s still time left after that (and there should be, as the cats aren’t hard to round up, and I’m assuming my wife is assisting in the round-up)…
I can’t imagine having time left after that, but there isn’t much else I’d consider to be at that level of importance, either.
ETA: My keys, wallet and cellphone are going to be in my pocket already if I’m dressed, so I don’t consider that part of the round-up act.
Damn. I always panic first and ask questions later, so I’d be lucky to get:
In order of important
My kids
Wife (we’ve discussed this before, and kids first, each other second)
Wallet
Phone
My and my wife’s laptops
My watches
Meds (I’m presuming that I can get some replacements)
Some clothes for the kids
Some clothes for me, the wife is on her own
All the important documents are scanned and backed up on a hard disk in Taiwan.
That’s it. Phones and such are already with me, the truck has a bunch of emergency gear packed in it, and most stuff is stored off-site or is just that - stuff.
Alright, so I was curious. I set a timer for five minutes, and pumped up the adrenalin. I started out not dressed, and got clothes on and everything grabbed, except no shoes on, in four minutes. I only stopped because I thought the timer should have gone off. So - totally doable.
Purse
Documents
Dog
Emergency bag
If I could take just one thing then it would be the dog.
How heavy/bulky is this? (Just asking out of curiosity.)
The rifle and mags will fit in here. You can also stash the spare pistol mags there in a side pouch. The ammo will take two large ammo cans. All total maybe 100 lbs or so. 1000 rounds of .308 weigh 56 lbs. The 600 rounds of 9mm weigh in at 16 lbs. Plus the weight of the cans (5.3 lbs. each), plus the weight of the rifle (12 lbs. +/-) and the pistol (2.5 lbs.)
Cumbersome but managable.
Assuming that I would be the one coordinating the joint effort, among five of us, I would be handing out the following:
We generally keep a couple of gallons of water in the van for when we travel with the dogs, so we’d be good for ~one day’s drinking and there are some long shelf life food items in the camp box, so we’d have a day or two of groceries.
The Fella and I have actually discussed this as a what-if thing and have agreed on what we would have to have for the best chance of survival.
The first stop, if allowed, would be an ATM for cash. Second would be gas for one or both vehicles.
Context matters with this. If it was a house fire and I’d be safe just outside the house, it would be easy - all 6 dogs in the big kennel in the back yard, out of the way of fire engines, cats in a crate stuck in the well house. Wallet, phone, charger, meds and a change of clothes in a bag. If time, computer, but if I lost it it would be no big deal. As long as I have my wallet, I should have access to plenty of cash and documents can be replaced.
If it was something where we’d have to evacuate - big brush fire, for example, it would be harder. I could put all 6 dogs in the station wagon, but I’d have to put both cats on one carrier for space. That probably wouldn’t be pretty. Other two cats are down in the barn (their choice - swinging bachelor pad for neutered toms) would have to flee. I’d still grab wallet, phone, charger and meds. I’d open the gates for the horses and hope for the best.
Civil unrest - I’d be better off holing up in my farm. I usually have plenty of animal food, a decent amount of human food, a well in case the city water supply was cut off. My next door neighbor is a well-armed cop. I live far enough from population centers that I don’t think I’d have to worry about ravening hordes.
Still, in five minutes I should be able to secure the dogs and house cats, release the horses, get my wallet and meds and leave. I should probably keep about $1000 in cash for emergencies that can’t be covered with a debit card. Keys are kept in the car (as well as a hidden debit card just in case).
StG
Thanks! So basically, this would be something you would pack in the car if you were going on the lam, but would be potentially too cumbersome if you were fleeing from a fire. I had somehow thought that that much ammo would take up much more space than that.
If it was a house-fire kind of thing:
[ul]
[li]Kids[/li][li]Wallet[/li][li]Phone[/li][li]PC Box :D[/li][/ul]
We’re insured - everything else can burn.
If its a ‘flee for the hills’ situation:
All the above (sans PC)
[ul]
[li]Rifles (.22, .223, & 12ga shotgun) + ammo[/li][li]Food[/li][li]Water[/li][li]Survival kit (knife + fire-lighting gear, water purifier, 1st aid)[/li][li]Tent[/li][li]Sleeping gear[/li][li]Pack[/li][/ul]
All of that is in the shed, easily accessible and can be tossed into the car quickly.
I posted in another thread that my mother & her family were Japanese POW’s in Indonesia during WW2.
When the Japanese Army came to round up western civilians my grandmother only had a few minutes to grab what she could carry along with two small children (my mum (18 months) & uncle (3 months)).
She grabbed some clothes, coins, the lace christening gown they had just had made and spent a lot of money on - we still use it now - and bedsheets so she could cut them up and make diaper’s for her two kids. That’s what she went into a POW camp for four years with.
You people are way too practical.
Thats just me. I’m sure my wife would grab her iPad & the coffee maker 
My thumb drive is on my key ring.
I grab the travel bag (allways loaded)
I would try to grab the cat (don’t think this would work):smack:
and, I would drive the bug-out van,
my wife would drive her wagon.
